Making Sense of Leasehold Property

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		The Survivor’s Guide To Buying A Freehold provides simple tools, tips and a step-by-step plan to enable leaseholders of flats to buy their building freehold while avoiding pitfalls that foil many such initiatives. This highly-readable book demystifies the process of valuing a freehold and explains how to save money, time and effort during the freehold acquisition process. Kat Callo, a leading expert on leaseholder issues and author of Making Sense of Leasehold Property, presents practical, jargon-free solutions for apartment owners, based on cutting-edge national research. She provides invaluable advice on how to maintain good relations with neighbours during a freehold purchase initiative and identifies steps to ensure proper management of the building after the process has been completed.

What the experts say about The Survivor’s Guide To Buying A Freehold

Kat Callo’s excellent guide, a follow up to Making Sense of Leasehold Property, steers the uninitiated homeowner through the minefield of property freeholds. Written in plain English, it makes a complicated subject accessible to all and has an answer for every problem or difficult situation. Invaluable help for anyone involved in purchasing the freehold of their home.
- Lorna Bourke
former personal finance editor of The Daily Telegraph, The Times and The Independent

A meticulous, highly-readable, warts-all-all exposition of the enfranchisement process. This is a how-to-book that never loses sight of the personal element, that purchasing the freehold of a block of flats is not just about understanding the law, but about how communities work together, about people’s homes. Kat Callo strips away the myths and illusions, and clearly demonstrates that forewarned is forearmed.
- Jane Barry
property journalist

When leasehold enfranchisement came in, thousands of homeowners trapped in this medieval form of tenure hoped for release. In practice, the legal and organisational challenges have killed off all but the most determined bids for enfranchisement, which makes this practical and hard-hitting guide all the more welcome.
- Chris Partridge
freelance residential property journalist

Kat has turned a dry and difficult subject into an addictive read – no mean achievement. Don’t ever consider embarking on collective enfranchisement without this book!
- Liz Hodgkinson
author of How To Buy A Flat